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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Chaos
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As expected, her name was Han Min-ha.
Looking at the photo again, it was definitely the girl who had given me the handkerchief.
Let’s see how she got in here.
Hero family bonus points?
So that was it.
I had wondered how such a timid and withdrawn girl could have entered the academy, but it was due to the family bonus points.
The hero family bonus point system was a kind of privilege granted when a parent or grandparent was a current or former hero.
In real-world terms, it was similar to a special admission system for national war veterans.
The bonus points varied depending on the hero’s rank, but most applicants could enter the academy.
This was because heroic talent often ran in families.
From the academy’s perspective, it was much more efficient to accept students with some level of talent than to start from scratch with ordinary students.
But… it was strange. Why was the family relations section blank?
If she received hero family bonus points, the related hero’s callsign and rank should have been listed in the family relations section…
Even if that wasn’t the case, shouldn’t there at least be the names of her parents or siblings?
Was she an orphan?
But even if her parents were deceased, their information as heroes should have been recorded here.
Or perhaps her grandparents were heroes, and her parents were both deceased?
Hmm… what was going on?
I couldn’t go back to the administration office and ask now.
Since it wasn’t urgent information, I decided to look into it later.
There was nothing else of significant interest
Were they asking me to make this girl an S-Rank?
No, were those letters even a real quest?
Once doubt took hold, it remained.
I shook my head and dismissed my skepticism.
Unlike other stories, there was no status window or a helpful tutorial after the possession.
With no information available, it was better to cling to even the smallest clue.
At least I knew the entire story up to the ending, so I would figure something out.
Back in my lab, I briefly finished preparations for tomorrow’s basic evaluation.
I had already prepared several times through faculty meetings before the entrance ceremony.
It was the same process every year, so it didn’t take long.
After finishing everything, I habitually lay down on the sofa.
The cough had subsided, but I was quite tired from standing for so long.
As I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep, my phone suddenly rang.
I had a message from Professor Jin Se-young.
[You’re in this, Professor!]
It was a link to a website I had never seen before.
I clicked on it and found the entrance ceremony from this morning uploaded as news.
The anchor’s clear voice accompanied images of the new students entering the main gate.
And there I was, waving my hand like a scarecrow…
This was… I looked very unnatural.
Fortunately, the embarrassing scene of me coughing and rushing off the podium wasn’t included.
It seemed they had edited it out as it wasn’t newsworthy.
I scrolled down to the comments and frowned.
The comment section was flooded with discussions about a specific person.
Who’s the guy standing at the main gate?
ㄴIsn’t he a professor?
ã„´Holy shit, a professor looks like that?
ã„´So handsome… (//∇//)
ã„´Why is his art style different?
ㄴYou’re supposed to say he has a different resolution, you weeb
What’s the Administration Director doing?
ㄴWhy are you blaming the Director who’s doing nothing?
ã„´This is so ridiculous, seriously. How can someone that good-looking also snag a professor position at the academy?
ã„´Exactly
ㄴFact) The academy is not under the Administration’s jurisdiction, so blaming the Director is wrong
ㄴFact) He’s a parasite
Honestly, he’s not handsome. He looks kinda creepy
ã„´Idiot
ã„´Nerd
ã„´LOL
ã„´Please go outside, get some sun, and meet some people
ㄴWe’ve decided to call that decadent charm
ã„´Don’t you have a mirror at home? Just look at your phone screen when it’s off.
Comment deleted by administrator.
ã„´What did this guy say to get deleted?
ã„´He probably offered to let him have his way with him
ã„´Holy shit LOL
ã„´LOL
ã„´Well, licking his ass is a bit much, but I wouldn’t mind giving him a blowjob
ㄴWhoa there, buddy…
Professor Jin Se-young… out of all the videos, why a link to this strange community…
I didn’t think she would be into this kind of thing.
Just in case, I typed “Graford Entrance Ceremony” in the search bar, and related keywords popped up.
‘Graford Main Gate Professor’, ‘Entrance Ceremony Main Gate Professor’, ‘Academy Sickly Beauty Professor’, and so on.
What was ‘Academy Sickly Beauty Professor’?
I clicked on it and a somewhat shaky video, seemingly taken by a freshman, started playing.
It showed me giving my introduction, then suddenly coughing violently and leaving the podium.
Seeing it like this… it was quite pathetic.
I cursed after reading the comments on the video.
“Damn it.”
The very first comment was, “The spitting image of a sickly beauty character getting railed by an obsessive alpha fan.”
I had definitely stumbled into the wrong kind of website.
Similarly, almost every community was buzzing about me.
In addition, Yoo Hee-won’s interview was also trending.
It had been filmed in front of the auditorium after the entrance ceremony and showcased her beauty and arrogance perfectly.
In a way, it might be fortunate that the quest was about Han Min-ha, not Yoo Hee-won.
If I were asked whether I could successfully guide her through graduation, overcoming her personality and parental pressure, well…
The original Professor Hyun Kyo might have been able to, but I wasn’t sure I could.
Hmm… Han Min-ha…
I opened the photo of Han Min-ha’s profile I had saved in my gallery.
Unkempt black hair, large glasses, and a dejected expression.
I had to make this girl an S-Rank…
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The next day, all the professors gathered for the basic evaluation.
While the entrance ceremony was handled by the administrative department, the basic evaluation, closely tied to the students’ grades, was entirely the responsibility of the faculty.
“Everyone knows how important the basic evaluation is, right?”
The professors nodded in agreement at the department head’s question.
The basic evaluation was extremely important for the academy students.
Students were categorized by skill level based on the evaluation, and subsequent guidance was tailored accordingly.
The scores and rankings from this evaluation tended to remain largely unchanged until graduation.
It couldn’t be helped.
The upper group, composed of talented students, received high-level education suited to their abilities.
They were assigned experienced advisors, and the academy provided additional training.
Since the academy’s prestige increased with the number of successful graduates, they focused on supporting students with high potential for A-Rank or above.
And most of the top-ranked students had already received private education before entering the academy.
As for the rest, well…
The lower-ranked students received only the minimum required education; the academy didn’t offer any additional support.
They were simply passed through graduation after paying their tuition.
Many of these graduates started at F-Rank, and most of them ended there.
Far from confronting villains, they ended up as human heavy machinery, assisting in construction sites and the like, eventually leaving the Administration out of self-loathing.
That was why the new students were so focused on the basic evaluation.
“Especially this year… you know, right? The chairman’s daughter.”
He was talking about Yoo Hee-won.
“If there are any issues with the basic evaluation, it could be problematic in many ways, so let’s be thorough. Objective and fair.”
“Understood.”
“Yes.”
“And Professor Kyo.”
The department head called on me.
“Yes, sir.”
“Behave yourself. You know what I mean, right?”
“Understood.”
He was referring to the commotion I had caused in the online communities.
“Then let’s move to the evaluation site.”
As we left the faculty room, Professor Jin Se-young approached me.
“What’s there to ‘behave’ about? It’s not like you did anything wrong, Professor Kyo.”
“I’m fine.”
“Professor, you need to stop saying ‘I’m fine’ all the time. That’s why the department head keeps taking advantage of you.”
“Haha, yes. I understand.”
The basic evaluation site was a massive set built on the academy’s second athletic field.
There, the freshmen underwent comprehensive assessments of their athleticism, reflexes, muscular endurance, judgment, and computational abilities.
Officially, it was a ‘basic’ evaluation to assess the freshmen’s level.
But I could sense an invisible fire of determination emanating from the freshmen heading towards the evaluation site.
Leading the group was the radiant blonde, Yoo Hee-won.
True to her attention-seeking nature.
Yoo Hee-won, recognizing me from afar, gave a flirtatious smile.
I ignored her smile and shifted my gaze to look for Han Min-ha.
But I couldn’t find the withdrawn girl with dark hair and glasses anywhere within my sight.
She must have been pushed back somewhere.
As the freshmen lined up in front of the faculty, the department head stepped forward and spoke.
“From now on, you will undergo the basic evaluation. As you all know, the basic evaluation is a very, very important assessment.”
At his words, the freshmen’s faces stiffened with tension.
Only Yoo Hee-won was smiling leisurely.
“Our faculty will evaluate you fairly, so I hope you will all demonstrate your full abilities and achieve high scores.”
The teaching assistants divided the freshmen into groups of ten at random.
“See you at the exit, Professor Kyo.”
Yoo Hee-won smiled coquettishly and walked away.
Ignoring her, I looked at the group standing in front of me.
“Oh?”
Han Min-ha, with her long, dark hair and glasses, was looking down at the ground with slumped shoulders.
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